the rational for rejecting that chubb offer?looked at it with advisors, financial advisors and outside lawyers and really reached the conclusion to reject it and really determined engaging in any future discussions just didn't make sense for shareholders in the long term which then they added, you know, they really have the confidence and conviction of the hearts ford strategic business plan would create value for shareholders over the longer period of time so, you know, i think we're sitting on a valuable franchise, jim, that is executing well. >> i'll use different language because i know your company and i am the policy holder but i think he was trying to steal the company. i see what is going on i see what is going on with the buy back and cash and the quarter had one-time things including a terrible incident with boy scouts you had to pay and what i've come up with is you're about to have an earnings explosion from small and middle enterprises. could i be right >> yeah, i think you got it right. if i look at where we are to

meantime, it in youngston, ohio, a shooting in a crowded lbgtq nick chubb.tive for the shooting and so far police haven't been saying much about this incident that took place about 1:15 local time in youngstown at an lbgtq nick chubb nightclub there. >>> prine kemp will hold a press conference in response to major league baseball pulling its all-star game out of atlanta. due to the state's new voting law. donald trump also weighing in. the former president calling for a boycott of mlb saying they are feeding into, quote, cancel culture and liberal lies. meantime, big companies like american airlines, dell, delta and coca-cola have all come out against the law and they now face republican backlash for opposing both the law in georgia and a similar one in texas. msnbc reporter with the latest. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. a lot of back and forth going on in georgia this week with the reaction to this very restrictive and repressive voting bill that was passed by republicans in the state, signed by republican governor brian kemp, like you mentioned.

all that much and that still leaves leave so they wanted to leave leave or they want to come back to chubb they don't want to come back to citizens they want to come back and take power and they want to come back into power and they had all these heavy material son or disservice to get its arms and that's why they and their. president deby actually there one thing which is good news here sparse the way but he left a unified country and he left a victorious military hero here are probably right about victory he defeated all the forces by himself and then he was injured so. it. said in the beginning the president's stance will not want to be alone if there is a council and he has had to deal with this there is a council from all the different military 2 for our forces the people who used to be either the defense ministers former defense minister former chief of staff and it's a current chief of staff these are the people who are the leading the army they are helping him to do the job he's not alone now and i'm not i'm sorry to interrupt you again but we are starting to run out of time so i n

. >> well maybe you want to ask -- >> did he say anything about chubb and the bid for the company? out to steal the company. he said well you said it he didn't say it he was a diplomat. >> we do have his thoughts about the recovery >> we to do? >> yes let's take a listen. >> i look at where we are today and i where i see the future going. you can't help but be optimistic the pandemic is beginning to recede, deaths are coming down the vaccination process is going relatively smoothly. and it all points to a recovery. particularly in small to mid-sized businesses that's our sweet spot. >> yeah. restaurants popping up all over, david. the competition suddenly appeared the flowers are blooming the competition is there so many restaurants and stores opening in brooklyn. you would think it is 1921 when a lot of places were, you know, worried. >> yes well it is the20s again. >> it is the 20s carl. >> the roarsing 2020s and the competition is incredible. i thought they were all gone. >> you are right about small business creation has been pretty resilient in the face of all this we got, i t